"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole.

Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

"知名埃及学家扬-阿斯曼（Jan Assmann）写道："人类是必须带着死亡的知识生活的动物，而文化是他们创造的世界，以便他们能够带着这种知识生活。" 在他的新书中，阿斯曼探索了古埃及的死亡和死亡仪式的图像，为整个文明的特殊性提供了惊人的新见解。

他借助于死亡礼仪这一陌生的体裁，对古埃及的死亡宗教有了一个非常全面的看法。阿斯曼详细描述了九种不同的死亡形象：作为身体被撕裂的死亡、作为社会隔离的死亡、死者法庭的概念、死尸、木乃伊、死者的灵魂和祖先的精神、作为分离和过渡的死亡、作为回家的死亡以及作为秘密的死亡。古埃及的死亡与救赎》还包括对通过语言和仪式反映死亡信仰的仪式的精彩讨论。